US20030147607A1 - Method of characterising one or more properties of optical fibres - Google Patents

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US20030147607A1
US20030147607A1 US10/302,722 US30272202A US2003147607A1 US 20030147607 A1 US20030147607 A1 US 20030147607A1 US 30272202 A US30272202 A US 30272202A US 2003147607 A1 US2003147607 A1 US 2003147607A1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/02—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by drawing or extruding, e.g. direct drawing of molten glass from nozzles; Cooling fins therefor
    • C03B37/03—Drawing means, e.g. drawing drums ; Traction or tensioning devices
    • C03B37/032—Drawing means, e.g. drawing drums ; Traction or tensioning devices for glass optical fibres
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the present invention relates to a method of characterising one or more properties of optical fibres obtained from an optical preform.
  • a method of manufacturing optical fibres from a preform is known per se, for example from U.S. Pat. No. 6,260,510 to the present applicant.
  • the preforms that are used with such a method have a diameter of 60 mm or more, and an optical fibre having a total length of more than 200 km can be drawn therefrom.
  • preforms are known from which a total fibre length of 500 or 1000 km is obtained.
  • the number of optical fibres obtained from one and the same preform can thus run to more than 100.
  • the optical fibre In the production of such optical fibres, the optical fibre is subjected to a large number of measurements for the purpose of characterising the geometric and optical properties thereof. A number of such properties are measured at the beginning and at the end of the fibre length. The considerable increase in scale in the fibre production processes and the capacity growth will thus lead to a considerable increase of the amount of measurements to be carried out on fibre lengths.
  • the optical fibre may fracture upon being mechanical tested for tensile strength, resulting in a random fibre length present on the coil, as a result of which separate fibre lengths are obtained, each of which must subsequently be subjected to a measurement of properties.
  • the object of the present invention is to reduce the number of measurements for characterising the optical fibre that are carried out on an optical fibre during the manufacture thereof.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of characterising one or more properties of optical fibres obtained from an optical preform, in which the number of measurements to be carried out is reduced by accurately keeping track of the position of each individual fibre length on the original optical fibre from which the individual fibre lengths are made.
  • step ii) subdividing the optical fibre from step i) into separate length portions by winding each of said separate length portions on a coil
  • step iii) measuring one or more properties of a random length portion of an optical fibre other than the length portion from step iv), whose code as registered in step iii) is known
  • step vi) assigning properties to said other length portions from step vi) on the basis of the mathematically processed measuring data.
  • Such an electronic memory storage device in particular a computer system, is in particular desirable for setting up an accounting system, so that any interpolation of properties can be carried out in a simple manner, thus enabling a significant reduction of the number of measurements that previously needed to be carried out on each optical fibre wound on a coil.
  • such an electronic memory storage device provides exact information with regard to the location of each individual length portion in the original optical fibre.
  • the optical fibre being drawn is preferably wound on a coil while step i) is being carried out.
  • Such an embodiment thus provides a mother coil on which the total optical fibre length is present.
  • the optical fibre is transferred from the mother coil to a number of daughter coils as needed, which daughter coils are subsequently encoded and provided with random individual fibre lengths, for example 4, 8, 12, 25 or 50 km.
  • steps v)-vii) can be substituted for a single step viii), which step viii) comprises the assigning of the properties measured in step iv) to another length portion whose code as registered in step iii) is known and which is adjacent to the length portion from step iv).
  • the properties of an optical fibre present on one coil are assigned to another optical fibre present on another coil, in which the length portion of said one optical fibre was originally adjacent to the length portion of the other optical fibre.
  • original as used herein is understood to mean the optical fibre before subdivision thereof into separate length portions takes place.
  • it is thus not necessary to measure the properties of each of the optical fibres present on two different coils, but it suffices to measure the properties of only one optical fibre and to assign the obtained value to the other optical fibre. Under specific circumstances it is possible to assign a property that has been measured only once to all the other individual length portions.
  • the relevant properties in connection with the present invention include, for single-mode fibres: attenuation, geometric properties, dispersion properties, polarization mode dispersion, cut-off wavelengths and mode field diameter; and for multimode fibres: attenuation, geometric properties, differential mode delay (DMD), numerical aperture and bandwidth, although the invention is not limited thereto.
  • the geometric properties inter alia include: diameter, unroundness and concentricity of the various layers in the fibre, such as the core and the cladding, and of the protective layers surrounding the fibre.
  • the dispersion properties inter alia include: zero dispersion (the wavelength at which the dispersion reaches the value zero), dispersion slope and dispersion at different wavelengths.
  • an optical fibre is drawn from a rod-shaped preform 1 , which optical fibre is subsequently distributed over a number of drums or coils 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 .
  • an electronic memory storage device records which position of the preform corresponds to the optical fibres wound on the various drums 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 .
  • the properties of the optical fibre 7 present on drum 2 are measured.
  • a similar measurement of properties is carried out on the fibre 8 present on drum 6 , for example.
  • the properties thus measured fall within a predetermined tolerance, said property will be assigned to each of the optical fibres that are wound on coils 3 , 4 and 5 . If the properties of the end portion of the optical fibre 7 on drum 2 have been measured, the measured properties will correspond to those of the starting portion of the fibre 8 present on drum 3 .

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